“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” — Socrates
世上只有一種善,知識;也只有一種惡,無知。
“School is one thing. Education is another. The two don’t always overlap. Whether you’re in school or not, it’s always your job to get yourself an education.” — Austin Kleon
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” — Albert Einstein
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” — Albert Einstein
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” — Socrates
“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.” — Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“When you stop learning you start dying.” — Albert Einstein
畢業是站在制度性學習的終點、自主性學習的起點。 — 龍應台
“Live to learn and you’ll really learn to live.” — John C. Maxwell
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” — Mark Twain


School lays the foundation, but true education starts when you step beyond the classroom.
Learning is a lifelong process.
凡是沒有在持續學習的人,精神上早已死去 — 只有死人才不學習。
真正的終身學習者,無論活到幾歲,大腦總是為「未知」留下一席之地,因此他們永遠年輕。
那些自稱「沒時間學習」的人,其實是選擇像機器人一樣操作眼前的生活。
有些人活著,卻如同行屍走肉,因為他們從不思考;有些人死了,卻永遠活著,因為他們的思想永存。
There are two types of people:
- Those who want to know more.
- Those who want to defend what they already know.
The first group approaches the world with openness and a growth mindset — they see every encounter as an opportunity to learn, revise, and expand their understanding. The second group operates from a fixed mindset — they treat knowledge as a possession to be protected, and new information as a threat to their established worldview.
The tragedy of the second type is that they are often unaware of their own limitation. Defensiveness masquerades as conviction; certainty disguises stagnation. Meanwhile, the first type experiences a compounding advantage: every new thing they learn opens doors to further questions, creating a virtuous cycle of growth.
當知道的越多,就會發現不知道的也越多
讀書若不思考,只會讓你自以為知道很多;讀書並深思,才會讓你清楚自己所知有限。
“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” — George Santayana
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” 1 — Confucius 2 3
“He who knows best knows how little he knows.” — Thomas Jefferson
“The fool who knows he is a fool is that much wiser. The fool who thinks himself wise is a fool indeed.” — Buddhism
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” — Benjamin Franklin
- The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.
- The more I learn, the less I feel I know.
- The more you learn, the more you are exposed to the immense unknown.
- Experts are only aware of what they don’t know.
學海無涯、學無止境
永續學習可以帶來知識再生的力量,讓我們一生保持源源不絕的學習動力。